Juneau, in the southeast, saw an astounding 10 daily record highs. The city closed the month of March with seven days in row of record highs, from the 25th through the 31st. The 59-degree F record high there on March 31 was the second-warmest reading on record for the month.

Deadhorse posted one of the most remarkable records for the month. Its March temperature was about 25 degrees F above normal, which is the biggest temperature departure ever recorded during March in the United States.

That anomaly surpassed the Circle Hot Springs, Alaska, record of 20.9 degrees F above normal set in 1965. Deadhorse was just one of many Alaska locations that recorded March temperatures at least 20 degrees F above normal.

While the atypically mild conditions were centered in the northern part of Alaska throughout March, as they have tended to do in recent history, just about the entire state finished much warmer than normal.

Unusually strong upper-level high pressure was centered over Alaska during the final weekend of March. (Tropical Tidbits)

Coastal areas of southern Alaska saw temperatures closest to normal, and those locations were still about five to 10 degrees above normal on average.

Much of the region has been locked between low pressure to its west and high pressure to its east, conditions remained extraordinarily favorable to keep the Bering Sea full of open water. Storminess was frequent in that region and into western Alaska.

In the end, March ended up setting a record for lack of ice on the Bering Sea. This new low-ice record comes on the heels of a startling 2018, which witnessed a massive drop-off in ice levels, compared with the past.

This year seems to show that the extraordinary readings of 2017 are not an anomaly in this region of a rapidly changing climate.

“There is no more vivid a display of how quickly our climate is changing than what’s happening right now in the Arctic,” meteorologist Jeff Berardelli tweeted, in a reflection on the many stories of this abnormal March in Alaska.